Sentences with phrase «while cohabiting couples»

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While a few of my middle - aged divorced friends are now in cohabiting relationships, I don't know many long - term couples who never married — just three, and of them only two have raised their children without «a piece of paper» or a ring on a finger.

Married couples tend to be more stable and more financially sound, according to some studies, while cohabiting parents are more likely to split up.

Common Law Marriage If a couple cohabits while holding themselves out as being married, they are considered to be married in 16 states.

In Ontario, married couples who are divorcing may apply for support under section 15.2 of the Divorce Act, while cohabiting spouses and married couples who are not seeking divorce may apply for spousal support under section 30 and 33 the Family Law Act.

While providing stable homes with positive role models for adopted children is a legitimate goal, the statute prohibiting unmarried cohabiting couples from adopting does not further that goal.

While the aim of providing genuine fairness for cohabiting couples is laudable, in my view, a very good starting point would be simple legislation providing long term cohabitants and those who have children with equality of division of any home acquired for joint use in a family relationship.

That share was more than twice the rate in 1980 (18 percent) and an eightfold increase from the rate in 1960 (5 percent).2 Half of the children born to unwed mothers live, at least initially, with a single mother who is not residing with the child's biological father (although about 60 percent of this group say they are romantically involved with the father), while half live with an unwed mother who is cohabiting with the child's father.3 These estimates imply that today one - fifth of all children are born into single - mother families, while another fifth are born into cohabiting - couple families.

Dating couples seem to argue most about issues such as commitment, time together, and the future of the relationship while married couples tend to argue about issues that come with sharing a household, such as money, children, and the division of labor.4 Cohabiting couples, especially those who have not made a formal commitment to marry each other, may get a particularly high dose of all of these kinds of issues and at a time when they don't necessarily have the commitment to the relationship or the skills yet to be able to tackle them well.

Couple Premarital Behavior and Dynamics We examined 14 behaviors and dynamics related to the focal relationship as predictors of marital quality: age at marriage, length of relationship before marriage, whether the couple had a child or were pregnant together before marriage, whether they began their relationship with hooking up, whether the respondent had sexual relations with someone else while dating his / her future spouse or knew that his / her partner had, whether the respondent reported any physical aggression in the relationship before marriage, whether the couple cohabited before making a mutual commitment to marry, the degree to which the respondent reported sliding into living together vs. deciding to do so, whether the respondent perceived that he or she was more or less committed than the partner before marriage, whether the couple received premarital education, and whether the couple had a wedding, as well as how many people attended the weCouple Premarital Behavior and Dynamics We examined 14 behaviors and dynamics related to the focal relationship as predictors of marital quality: age at marriage, length of relationship before marriage, whether the couple had a child or were pregnant together before marriage, whether they began their relationship with hooking up, whether the respondent had sexual relations with someone else while dating his / her future spouse or knew that his / her partner had, whether the respondent reported any physical aggression in the relationship before marriage, whether the couple cohabited before making a mutual commitment to marry, the degree to which the respondent reported sliding into living together vs. deciding to do so, whether the respondent perceived that he or she was more or less committed than the partner before marriage, whether the couple received premarital education, and whether the couple had a wedding, as well as how many people attended the wecouple had a child or were pregnant together before marriage, whether they began their relationship with hooking up, whether the respondent had sexual relations with someone else while dating his / her future spouse or knew that his / her partner had, whether the respondent reported any physical aggression in the relationship before marriage, whether the couple cohabited before making a mutual commitment to marry, the degree to which the respondent reported sliding into living together vs. deciding to do so, whether the respondent perceived that he or she was more or less committed than the partner before marriage, whether the couple received premarital education, and whether the couple had a wedding, as well as how many people attended the wecouple cohabited before making a mutual commitment to marry, the degree to which the respondent reported sliding into living together vs. deciding to do so, whether the respondent perceived that he or she was more or less committed than the partner before marriage, whether the couple received premarital education, and whether the couple had a wedding, as well as how many people attended the wecouple received premarital education, and whether the couple had a wedding, as well as how many people attended the wecouple had a wedding, as well as how many people attended the wedding.

Widow's, Widower's or Surviving Civil Partner's Contributory Pension is not payable while a person cohabits i.e. lives with someone as a couple.

Not all her analyses use controls, but where she does, Kuperberg includes variables such as age at co-residence (or age at marriage, depending), education, race / ethnicity, family stability growing up, if one grew up religious or not, if one had previously cohabited with someone other than the mate (serial cohabitation), if the couple had moved in together while expecting a baby, and if there had been any birth prior to cohabiting (within the relationship or from a prior one).

In one of our recent papers, Galena Rhoades explained a type of risk that is unrecognized by some couples until they experience it while living together.v In this paper, which included some of the most sophisticated analyses we've ever conducted on how couples change when they cohabit (controlling, powerfully, for selection by examining within - person changes), she noted that, for many couples, cohabitation combines two different developmental tasks in one period of time.

While countries around the world adopted the practice with gusto decades ago, U.S. couples who cohabited were seen as «living in sin.»

While the majority of cohabiting couples are childless, about 40 percent have children while living together, increasing the ramifications of any differences in stability between cohabiting and married couWhile the majority of cohabiting couples are childless, about 40 percent have children while living together, increasing the ramifications of any differences in stability between cohabiting and married couwhile living together, increasing the ramifications of any differences in stability between cohabiting and married couples.

While a recent Pew survey found that nearly two - thirds of cohabiting adults view living together as a «step toward marriage,» most cohabiting couples don't make it down the aisle.

While some of these «woops» pregnancies occur within marriage, a high share are to cohabiting couples or single women in precarious situations.

While the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 provides for cohabiting couples, including same - sex couples, to adopt a child, the provisions are not yet in effect.